AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Our Client, a Health Insurance company, is looking for an AWS Cloud Platform Engineer for their Reston, VA/Hybrid location.

Responsibilities:

Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs

Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, and operations.

Establish automation capabilities leveraging Cloud native solutions, to improve the Developer experience.

Support activities, including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.

Willingness to roll up the sleeves and troubleshoot difficult issues and engage the Customer.

Willingness to learn new AWS Services and other technologies as required.

Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity.

Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation and migration efforts.

Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns.

Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities.

Establish strategies to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform.

Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications.

Conduct research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business initiatives.

Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities.

Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains.

o (e.g., Systems, Network, Storage, Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement.

Automate end to end process to maintain (patches and upgrades) of our AWS Cloud ecosystem.

Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capabilities.

Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions.

Requirements:

Development: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc.

IAC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at least one: Ansible, and Terraform, AWS Cloud formation, CDK.

Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers- is a Plus

Container Orchestration Platform: Experience with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS is a plus.

CNI Plugins: Calico, Flannel, Weave Net etc.

Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh etc.

Container Security Tools: Twistlock, Sysdig, Aqua etc. is a plus,

Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, Data Dog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, etc.

DevOps Tools: Git/Repo, Crucible, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Circleci, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus etc.

Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture

Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills

Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills

AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, EKS, RedShift etc.

Cloud and DevOps certifications, e.g., AWS

Knowledge of programming languages and web-based technologies.

Ability to collaborate to solve technical problems across teams.

Expert -Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

Expert - The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Client programs.

Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time.

Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence.

Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.

AWS Cloud certifications, minimum of One is required.

Why Should You Apply?

Health Benefits

Referral Program

Excellent growth and advancement opportunities

ICONMA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable law.